Weekend QoD: October 26: Answers & Points

[wintergreen48]

Presidents and Such

1. The special action that Charles Carroll took on 7/4/1828 was to dig the first spade of dirt for the B&O Railroad.

2. The President who was born on July 4 was Calvin Coolidge.

3. The last ‘only living (present or former) President was Richard M. Nixon.

4. ‘Adoption’ is a little tricky, in that the Constitution went through several steps before it became effective, and one can argue about what the meaning of ‘adoption’ is. The Constitution was ‘approved’ by the Constitutional Convention on September 17, 1787, it received ‘ratification’ from New York, the required 9th State to ratify it, on July 26, 1788, the Continental Congress passed a resolution to put it into effect on September 13, 1788, and it formally went into effect on March 4, 1789, when the first Congress first sat. Regardless of which of these dates is picked as the date of ‘Adoption,’ no President was born between September 17, 1787, and March 4, 1789, so ‘adoption’ is not really a problem.

a. The last person to be elected President who was ‘a Citizen of the United States at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution’ was Zachary Taylor, who was born November 24, 1784, before all this Constitution stuff came up.

b. The first person to serve as President who was ‘a natural born Citizen’ of the United States was John Tyler, who was born on March 29, 1790, after all this Constitution stuff came up (the ‘tricky’ part is that he was not ‘elected,’ but instead succeeded to the Presidency upon the death of William Henry Harrison, who was the last person elected to the Presidency who was born before the signing of the Declaration of Independence-- Martin van Buren was the first person elected to the Presidency after the signing of the Declaration of Independence; the first person to be elected President who was a ‘natural born Citizen’ was James Buchanan, who was born on April 23, 1791).

5. The reason why the 42nd person to serve as President is counted as the 43rd President is because, according the US State Department, Grover Cleveland is counted as President #20 and President #22. There’s government math for you; no wonder they can’t balance budgets.

6. The Presidents who where grandfather and grandson were William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison.

7. The child of a President and the grandchild of a President who got themselves hitched were Julie Nixon and David Eisenhower.

8. The first President to be born west of the Mississippi was Herbert Hoover (Iowa).

9. The last Virginia-born President was Woodrow Wilson.

10. The state that is the home state of seven Presidents is Ohio.


Points
jarnon - 7
a1mamacat - 2
KillerTomato - 9
kroxquo - 10
NellyLunatic - 13
jbillygirl - 8
frogman - 6
weyoun - 11
Confessor - 10
VADame - 12
AndrewJackson - 9
plasticene - 8
tanstaafl - 6
AnnieCamaro - 10
T_Bone - 9


And for the whole month of weekends, the totals are:
jarnon - 63
a1mamacat - 38
peacock - 15
Bob### - 36
littlebeast13 - 10
Marley - 60
KillerTomato - 74
kroxquo - 60
NellyLunatic - 72
jbillygirl - 72
frogman - 53
catfish - 16
jsuchard - 66
weyoun - 81
Confessor - 81 1/2
ritterskoop - 18
VADame - 77
AndrewJackson - 84
macrae - 39
plasticene -76
tanstaafl - 73
AnnieCamaro - 52
wheresfanny - 37
christie - 2
etaoin - 8
T_Bone - 1
LynPayne - 55
sportsfan - 6

AJ was the winner of the 'weekend' portion of this month's QoD; I don't know if folks will want to have two QoD's next month (weekend + weekday) as we did this month-- uly and I only did it this way because we tied in the last competition. But if you want to do two, then I guess AJ would do the weekends, if he wants; if everyone wants to combine it to one person (if, say, AJ doesn't also win the weekday game), then I guess you would want to combine the weekend scores with the weekday scores to come up with a winner. If that is done, I would suggest 'discounting' the weekend scores, since I used higher daily scores than were used in the weekday portion of the game and they would be unduly weighted: I would suggest using 40% of the total weekend score, since the weekends are only 40% of the time of the weekdays.

But then, math was never my strong suit.

[TheConfessor]

5. The reason why the 42nd person to serve as President is counted as the 43rd President is because, according the US State Department, Grover Cleveland is counted as President #20 and President #22. There’s government math for you; no wonder they can’t balance budgets.

Actually, he's #22 and #24. Garfield is #20.

[andrewjackson]

AJ was the winner of the 'weekend' portion of this month's QoD; I don't know if folks will want to have two QoD's next month (weekend + weekday) as we did this month-- uly and I only did it this way because we tied in the last competition. But if you want to do two, then I guess AJ would do the weekends, if he wants; if everyone wants to combine it to one person (if, say, AJ doesn't also win the weekday game), then I guess you would want to combine the weekend scores with the weekday scores to come up with a winner. If that is done, I would suggest 'discounting' the weekend scores, since I used higher daily scores than were used in the weekday portion of the game and they would be unduly weighted: I would suggest using 40% of the total weekend score, since the weekends are only 40% of the time of the weekdays.

But then, math was never my strong suit.

I am happy and proud to win the weekend portion of the QoD this month. The questions were challenging but educational.

I would rather not host in November, weekday or weekend.

I have no idea who is winning the weekday portion but I would hope that that person would take it on for November.

[wintergreen48]

5. The reason why the 42nd person to serve as President is counted as the 43rd President is because, according the US State Department, Grover Cleveland is counted as President #20 and President #22. There’s government math for you; no wonder they can’t balance budgets.

Actually, he's #22 and #24. Garfield is #20.

I TOLD you math is not my strong point. 20, 22, 24, it's all the same to me.

Q: Why are so many women so weak in math?
A: Because their boyfriends tell them that this -----> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
is nine inches.